Company Number: SC001500
Date of Incorporation: 22 December 1885
Contact Details: Edinburgh Park, 5 Lochside Way, Edinburgh, EH12 9DT
Operating Details: Dissolved 26 January 1993
Other names (if known):
Function of Company*: Distilling of potable drinks (1591); warehouse operations (6312)
Headquarters/Base of Operations Location: Glasgow
Area of Operation: Worldwide distribution
*Taken from Standard Industrial Classification 2003, as used by Companies House in 2010
Records
Held By: Diageo Archive GB 1877- Glenochil House, Menstrie, Clackmannanshire, Scotland, FK11 7ES or email christine.j.mccafferty@diageo.com
Scope/type: Contact Diageo Archive for details-many of the records relating to the company are tied into those of United Distillers (see below)
This company was a whisky blenders and exporter, and bonded warehousemen. By 1903 the company was operating out of a purpose built warehouse on Scotland Street in Glasgow, designed by John Gordon. The company produced Finest Old Scotch Whisky as Slater Rodger Glasgow (also known as Rodger’s Old Scots blended). The company is also listed as a bottler of whisky brands, including Begbie’s Special and Lord Douglas. At some point, probably at the beginning of its business, the company operated from Hurlford, Ayrshire.
By 1904 the company did a large amount of blending and bottling in Glasgow for John Walker & Sons, which had formed an interest in the company through its Cardow distillery in 1899. Negotiations were begun by Walker to acquire a controlling interest, which it did in 1911. As part of Walker, the company became a subsidiary of The Distillers Company Limited when it merged with the company in 1925, though it appears to have continued active operations within the DCL umbrella (see Wilson p146).
Along with the rest of the Distillers Company Limited, this company was acquired by Guinness in 1986, forming part of the new United Distillers. After this merger Slater Rodger was dissolved in 1993. The rest of United Distillers became the distilling arm of Diageo following the merger of Guinness and Grand Metropolitan, and still operates today.
Sources
Ross Wilson, Scotch; the formative years (Constable, London 1970)
Michael Moss and John Hume, The Making of Scotch Whisky (James & James, Edinburgh 1981)
Slater Rodger & Company Limited
Company Number: SC001500
Date of Incorporation: 22 December 1885
Contact Details: Edinburgh Park, 5 Lochside Way, Edinburgh, EH12 9DT
Operating Details: Dissolved 26 January 1993
Other names (if known):
Function of Company*: Distilling of potable drinks (1591); warehouse operations (6312)
Headquarters/Base of Operations Location: Glasgow
Area of Operation: Worldwide distribution
*Taken from Standard Industrial Classification 2003, as used by Companies House in 2010
Records
Held By: Diageo Archive GB 1877- Glenochil House, Menstrie, Clackmannanshire, Scotland, FK11 7ES or email christine.j.mccafferty@diageo.com
Scope/type: Contact Diageo Archive for details-many of the records relating to the company are tied into those of United Distillers (see below)
Conditions governing access/use: Please contact Diageo Archives
Related records: One court file held at National Archives of Scotland involving this company. Photo of warehouse premises at SCRAN http://www.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-000-514-679-C
Company History
This company was a whisky blenders and exporter, and bonded warehousemen. By 1903 the company was operating out of a purpose built warehouse on Scotland Street in Glasgow, designed by John Gordon. The company produced Finest Old Scotch Whisky as Slater Rodger Glasgow (also known as Rodger’s Old Scots blended). The company is also listed as a bottler of whisky brands, including Begbie’s Special and Lord Douglas. At some point, probably at the beginning of its business, the company operated from Hurlford, Ayrshire.
By 1904 the company did a large amount of blending and bottling in Glasgow for John Walker & Sons, which had formed an interest in the company through its Cardow distillery in 1899. Negotiations were begun by Walker to acquire a controlling interest, which it did in 1911. As part of Walker, the company became a subsidiary of The Distillers Company Limited when it merged with the company in 1925, though it appears to have continued active operations within the DCL umbrella (see Wilson p146).
Along with the rest of the Distillers Company Limited, this company was acquired by Guinness in 1986, forming part of the new United Distillers. After this merger Slater Rodger was dissolved in 1993. The rest of United Distillers became the distilling arm of Diageo following the merger of Guinness and Grand Metropolitan, and still operates today.
Sources
Ross Wilson, Scotch; the formative years (Constable, London 1970)Michael Moss and John Hume, The Making of Scotch Whisky (James & James, Edinburgh 1981)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distillers_Company_Limited
With thanks to the Diageo Group Archives for their help and assistance with the project, and their permission to use this information.